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VOLUME XV.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1903.
NUMBER 14
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THE MILLAiMPLift
New
Arrivals
for the Ladies.
New
Silks
New
- Velvets
New
Suitings
New
Wais tings
New
Laces
New
Gloves
New
Ribbons
New
Allovers
New '
Appliques
New
Lawns
New
Percales"
New
Prints
New
Embroideries
New
Ginghams
"
Our prices are always the lowest on
Sole Agents for Snow
We take this means of announcing to our many cus
tomers that begihing with
Inaugurated Our
Own System of
Delivery
.thereby insuring our customer of prompt delivery.
'Phone us in your order and let us show you how quick
ly we can deliver it for you.
New Spring lines
of Gents' Furnishings are
arriving daily. We arc
showing th? very latest
styles and patterns in men's
Negligee and Golf Shirts.
Also a swell line of fleck
wear positively the latest
things out. Come in and
look them over before pur
chasing your spring furnishings.
Now on Exhibition :
The most varied and best selected stock of useful and fashionable vier
chandise ever shown. in Umatilla county.; The latest improved Xopelties
in all wool Suitings, Knickerbockers, Prunella Cloths. Fancy Zebelines,
Etamines, Albatross, Cashmeres and Serges: Wash Dress " :
Goods & Waist inqs
Particular attention is called to this line. We simply have little of every
thing in desirable, high grade new weaves. The. variety is amazing. A
lady need have no fear of there being a livery of any of these fine novelties,
as there are no two lengths alike and dozens to select from. All colors all
patterns in Soisettes, mercerized Madrass, linen finished Zephyrs, mercer
ized Zephyrs, Silk tissues, lace striped Jonquils, Jacquard Embroideries,
Kharo'clotiis Mercerized Etamines, Oxford Soleil, Madras Raye, Mercer
ized Grass. ' They must be seen to be fully appreciated. In addition, we
are showing a large line of medium or: 'i
Of Every
that everybody wants. Pay us a visit. It will cost you nothing
likely' save you money, as we are underselling 'tha larisa :iike.s? : - -
your trade and we appreciate the fact
better values than others offer.
Drift Hour and the National Biscuit Co. Goods
Monopole Syrup
Have you ever tried Mon
opole Syrup? It is a pure
sugar syrup that is making
more friends than any
other like goods on the
market. We are introduc
ing it at the following
price:
One gal ...95c
One-half gal.... 50c
Don't forget the name
"MONOPOLE." A new
barrel of Hienz Pickles
just arrived. The qt.. l5c
Goods
that the way to get it is 'to
;''
Groceries., A Get them before buying
Sweet Goods
We recently closed a con
tract with the National
Biscuit Co. to handle ex
clusively their sweet goods.
We now have the follow
ing in stock: - Nobisco, Ra
mona. Festeno, Athena and
Champagne Wafes; Uneeda
Biscuit, Butter Thins, Soci'
al Tea, Orange Marmalade,
Vienna Creams,, Kennedys
Oeplerettes, Zu Zu Ginger.
Snaps, and many others
too numerous to mention.
New
Arrivals
for Gentlemen
New
Spring Suits
New
Double Breasted Three
button Sack Coats
New
v Golf Suits
New
Soft Hats
New
Dress Shoes
New
Work Shoes -New
Dress Shirts
New
Work Shirts
New .
Spring Underwear
New
Socks, all Colors
New
Neckwear
New
Dress Gloves
New
Work Gloves
and very
Wt.:. mn.n.i.
give you
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FORM ASSOCIATION
RETAIL LUMBERMEN UNITE
FOR PROTECTION,
J. A. Borie of Pendleton President,
H. H. Curtis of Athena,
' Secretary.
Ad association of retail lumbermen
has beeu permanently organized to pro
tect members from "disastrous conse
quences resulting to the retail dealer
from direct competition with whole
salers and manufacturers," by the ex
change of accurate information regard
ing the nature and extent of such com
petition where any exists.
The association in its declaration of
purpose recognizes the right of manu
facturers and wholesalers to engage in
this competition, but states that a species
of mutual bureau of information among
retailors is necessary to offset it. The
members are to co-operate in every way
possible -to protect retail dealers.
J. A. Borie of Pendleton was elected
president, and II. II. Curtis of Athena
secretary. These were temporary officers
at the preliminary meeting held in Pen
dleton about 10 days ago.
. Fifteen retail dealers were represent
ed as follows: G. W. Proebstel, Wes
ton; T. J. Montgomery, Helix; Gray's
Harbor Lumber company, Milton; Ore
gon Lumber Yard, Pendleton; A. M.
Gillis, Athena; W. E. Putnam, Milton;
Free water Lumber company, Free water;
Oregon Lumber company, Walla Walla;
Athena Lumber company, Athena;
Whitehoiise, Critnloe & ' Co., Walla
Walla; R. Forster, Pendleton ; Walla
Walla Lumber company, Walla Walla;
Pomeroy Lumber Co., Pomeroy; A. M.
McCoy, Waiteburg; J. A. Dunham and
Sod, Walla Walla. ; '
The new organization is called the
Inland Empire Retail Lumbermen's
association. .
Wheat W Growing.
Such remarkable progress as the past
few days have made in wheat has rarely
been seen in the grain raising history.
Since hut Monday grain has advanced
by leaps and bounds, while spring wheat
has come on with rapidity where a week
ago it was scarcely sprouted. There are
no - iodicat on of a change and a
little more time will put wheat at a
stage where the delay in seeding will be
amply compensated. ,
' Robbery at Pilot Koek. '
Sunday night burglars dynamited the
large sare in tha postoffice at Pilot Rock
and secured about $300 intconeyand
othr valuable paper. So effectively
did the robbers do their work that all
clue to the perpetrators is lost. The
safe was packed so that tho force of the
explosion did not do much damage to
j the building and the sound was safely
in u men.
Vroome Agalunt Frnonie.
J. E. Frooine has brought suit against
G. M. Froomo to compel the latter to
pay him the sum of $175.25 with 675 at-
' jj
We have just received
Get
he Umatilla Implement
torneys' fees which the plaintiff claims
is due and owing to him. The petition
recites that on Oct. 27, 1899, the de
fendant gave the plaintiff a proraisory
noto for $200, and that in Oct. 1898,
the plaintiff went security for the de
fendant at the First National Bank of
Athena for 3 1 5, both sums the de
fendant having failed to pay and the
judgment above is asked. W. M. Peter
son and Balleray and McCourt are at
torneys for plaintiff. The case has been
compromised. ,
Women of Woodcraft.
The order of Women of Woodcraft
was organized in St. Louis, Mo., dx
years ago by 7 people. The charter
members were and are:
J. L. Wright, Leadville, Colo., pres
ent grand clerk.
Mrs. Carry C. Van Orsdall, Pendle
ton, chosen grand guardian and has
been elected to that office each year
since that time.
Win Doherty, Pueblo, Colo.
Olive Grimsbaw, Denver, Colo.
Anna P. Hawkins, Toledo, Ore.
Helen M. South wick, Salem, Ore.
Inez Filloon, Tha Dalles, Ore.
From the origin of the organization
with seven members the order has grown
to be a lodge with over 31,000 members,
and each year showing great increases
in membership over the one previous.
FIRST REGULAR MEET
OF ATHENA GUN CLUB
A Good Showing Made Pendleton
Shooters-
The first regular meet of the Athena
Rod and Gun Club took place Sunday
afternoon on the club grounds. It was
a "rouser." Eleven members of the
Pendleton club came up to assist the
Athena boys, and their names are to be
found in every firing squad on the score
book. : .
Some good scores were made. Other
scores were made that would not look
well in print, but those who made them
are in to win, and, with practice, will
later be heard from. With the except
ion of three men the members of the
Athena club have never before shot
over the trap, and the frisky blue rock
is hard to locate. .
L. A. Githens for the Athena club
did some excellent shooting, having a
per centage of tifj, being second to
only one,. Stillman of Pendleton, who
scored 88 8-9. Waite of Pendleton was
next with 801-9. Githens led the Pendle
ton shooters in doubles, breaking 19 out
of a possible 20. SimpBon and Le
Grow shot well considering practice, the
former having 54 2-7 and the latter 50.
Much interest is being taken by tho
Athena shooters, and with continuous
work, good scores are bound to be
made.
lntpUratICennli.il.
Tho 'Swing Sifters" is tho namo of
the Reardan, Wash., ball team. Con
cerning it the Spokesman- oview says:
The board has secured funds to put
the team on a firm financial basis for the
entire season and lis retained Edwin F.
Chapter as coach and business manager.
Chapler was outfielder for the Fort
Dodge (Iowa) team in 1898,' pitched and
outfielded for the Cornell college team, j
PENDLETON, ATHENA,
CANTON and
DUTCHMAN
a car of , Barb and Woven Wire Fencing.
our prices before buying
and, later, captain of the Mount Veinon
team during 1899; pitcher and outfielder
Cornell college, 1900; pitcher, Pendle
ton, Or., 1901, and pitcher and outfielder
for Osburn's famous "Yellow Kids" of
Athena, Ore., season of 1902. The last
named organization is well known in tho
Pacific northwest as the best amateur
team of the season. Seven members of
the Swing Sifter organization have re
ported for daily practice and the man
agement is negotiating with others. The
Swing Sifters take their name from the
brand of flour manufactured by the
Washington Grain & Milling company of
Reardan and Spokane.
-
Arteaian Water, j
B. T. Coplen, expert on formation for
artesian water who has been making ex
tensive examinations of the Columbia
river basin for a number of years, after
looking over the situation, says there is
every indication that artesian water can
be had along the base of the Echo
Buttes; the formation there being basal
tic cap surrounded on all sides by-an
older formation of tho tertian age indi
cating that the tertian formation is
underneath the basalt and that the con
tact between those two formations
carries the subterranean water. East
Oregonian.
MAN FROM FLORIDA
ON TRAIL OF HIS WIFE
After Being Located She Eludei Her
Spouse Wallula Wants Him.
All the way from Florida he came,
seeking his fleeing wife. lie -had lo
cated her near Athena before leaving
his southern homo several weeks ago.
She stopped at the country home of a
well known farmer, and the husband
secured work on a nearby farm. It is
said the man did everything in his
power to reinstate the woman beneath
his own vine and fig tree, but his efforts
were futile. His erstwhile betterhalf
would not listen to his entreaties, and
while the husband labored on the near
by ranch, packed her belongings and
glided to unknown recesses of a land
that is long and broad.
Her trail is completely obliterated, and
the ' husband who grossed the continent
in the hope of inducing her to return to
his southern home now despairs of ever
locating her.
It is apparently a case of a wife seek
ing a divorce, the husband endeavoring
to thwart her desires. She will prob
ably get the divorce if she can keep the
husband out of the way long enough.
And the husband well, he got left.
Later Finley is the husband's name,
and Wednesday, in company with a man
named Roberts, left Athena on the W.
fc C. R. for Pasco. At.ValluIa they
left the train, and meeting Deputy
Sheriff Nave, and uiwtuking the officer
for a holdup inao, Roberts begau shoot
ing. The officer returned tho tiro hit
ting Roberts twice. Ho will die. Fin
ley disappeared. Both men worked for
R. E. Stewart, north of Athena, and
Finley t was known around town as
'Alligator."
Foley's Honey aad Tar
tor chUdrcn,sate,surc. No opiates.
HEIrlX.
Gangs, Sulky and
Walking Plows
SUPERIOR DRILLS,
BAIN and FISH WAGONS,
BARB and WOVEN WIRE
FENCING.
WHEAT BURNED UP
THREE WAREHOUSES AT CAY
USE STATION DESTROYED.
More Than 18,000 Bushels of Wheat
Consumed and all the Build
ings Valued at 810,000.
Monday the warehouses at Cayuse
containing about 18,000 bushels of grain
w'ere totally destroyed by fire. i The fire
which was of unknown origin was first
discovered in the roof of the Interior
warehouse The station of CayuBe is
without any water protection whatever,
but the citizens of the place made a des
perate effort to extinguish the flames.
A strong wind was blowing which made
this impossible, and in a very short
time the entire front of the warehouses
was on fire without any hopes of being
saved. Several small houses were also
burned. The total loss will reach about
$20,000. , ...
The warehouses stand very close to
gether and the fire readily passed from
one building to the other. The heat
from the burning grain was intense,
even after the wooden frames had been
totally destroyed.
The warehouse belonging to the Paci
fic Coast Elevator Co. was 40 by 200
feet and contained about 1000 sacks of
wheat which had been stored by farmers
who intended using it for seed, and 3500
sacks of barley.
The Interior Warehouse company's
building was about 60 by . 150 feet and
contained about 0000 bushels of wheat.
The Kerr, Gifford & Co.'s building
was 40 by 180 feet and contained about
8000 bushels of wheat.
"' i "Doing Thlngi."
Assessor Strain, of Umatilla county, is
"doing things" in the matter of property
assessments. He proposes to assess all
real estate and personal property at one
third its actual value and railroad prop
erty looks the same to him as the garden
patch of the humblest citizen. The
effect of this new departure will be to
raise the asbessment of the railroad
property from $4620 pf r mile to $11,600
per mile. This is business and the same
rule should be applied in every county
in Oregon. Condon Globe.
School Iteport. '
Report of distric No. 11 for month be
ginning March 2 and ending March 27:
No. days taught, 20; No. pupils enrolled,
21. Those on the roll of honor for the
mouth are: Andrew White, Earnest"
Bell, Elmer Booher.Chaa. Carlile, Jakey
Booher, Daisy , Waddiugham, Minnie
Ross, Ethel Waddingham, Allen Bell,
Anna Ross. Edna Ross, Rose Wadding
ham, Zora Crabill. No. visitors, 5.
Lillian Downs Dobson,
Teacher.
Uautfral 8teo.
General John H.-Steveus, aged 97,
and said to have been the oldest man
living in Oregon for maoy years, died at
the home of his son, Jasper Stevens, in
La Grande Monday morning.
Co.
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